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Little Isabelle OK after fall from balcony

3:53 AM,
Aug. 7, 2013

Written by

Catharine Hadley
Staff writer

The parents of a 1½-year-old baby who fell from a balcony Monday evening are relieved that the child was not seriously injured.

Just after 6 p.m. Monday, Sonia Lopez was sitting on the top step leading up to a balcony at her State Road residence with her daughter, Isabelle. When Isabelle's father, David Rivera, came home and walked up the stairs, the little girl stood.

"Dad was two stairs away from us, not even that. She got really excited," Lopez said. "She went through a gap in the railing. ... Before he could event get a hand out to grab her, she lost her footing on the step." ...